Public Accountability Cell Chief Calls for Independent Probe into Assets of Top Officials
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Multan (Bureau Report) An appeal has been made to Field Marshal General Syed Asim Munir, the country’s most powerful and influential figure, to ban all bureaucrats, police, judges, industrialists and landlords who have taken loans from financial institutions from dual citizenship and from leaving the country for at least five years after retirement, except for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages, and to form an independent commission to collect initial and current property declarations from them. This appeal was made by Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar, Central Chairman of Public Accountability Cell and National Labor Alliance, in a letter addressed to Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir. Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar said that the bureaucracy and its pro-political parties have always criticized the Pakistani army and Pakistani intelligence agencies, which are in the eyes of enemy forces, and declared themselves innocent of all wrongdoings. Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar said that if the properties and assets of corrupt elements and their families are assessed, the public will be shocked. Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar said that the debt-ridden people of the country 75 percent of the people in the bureaucracy, police and judiciary are not in important posts for the country and the nation but for the interests of their own families. He further said that no one from the current bureaucracy, police and judiciary should be allowed to come close to the independent commission established to investigate assets. He said that I was also included in the Pakistan Accountability Movement formed in 1996 under the leadership of General (retired) Hameed Gul, after which the then President Farooq Khan Leghari had announced accountability while ending the government of Ms. Benazir Bhutto. Then Mian Nawaz Sharif established an accountability cell under the leadership of Senator Saif-ur-Rehman as Prime Minister, while General Pervez Musharraf established the National Accountability Bureau NAB. The voice we raised has become the need of every government. It is a pity that NAB could not work according to the wishes of the people. Today, the institution that is needed again is the corrupt elements and this country has been ruthlessly looted/scraped, forcing the country into debt and the people to starve. It is necessary that They should be held accountable.
